National Affairs

March 30--Celebration of Seward Day* in Alaska.

April 10--Launching of light cruiser Chicago, seventh of 10,000-ton vessels constructed under 1924 Navy program; at Mare Island, Calif.

April 10--Beginning of "Covered Wagon Centennial" celebration, by proclamation of President Hoover. Occasion: 100th anniversary of departure of first wagon train from St. Louis toward the Oregon country.

April 10--Launching of the Corsair, new $2,000,000 yacht of J. Pierpont Morgan; at Bath, Maine.

April 11--Sixty-eighth birthday of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes.

April 13--Jefferson's birthday.

Foreign News

March 22--Emancipation Day in Porto Rico.

April 3-14--Nantes Fair at Nantes, France.

April 14--Presentation of the national budget to the British House of Commons by Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden; in London.

Aeronautics

March 22-29--Second annual aviation exposition at Buffalo, N. Y.

March 26-April i--Aircraft show at Music Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio.

April 5-13--All-American aircraft show of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce; at Detroit, Mich.

Science

April 5-9--Fiftieth anniversary celebration of American Society of Mechanical Engineers; at Hoboken, N. J., Washington, D. C.

April 7-11--Meeting of the American Chemical Society; at Atlanta, Ga.

April 8, 9, 10--Meeting of Society of Automotive Engineers; at Detroit, Mich.

Business

April 24, 25--Meeting of the National Petroleum Association; at Cleveland.

Music

March 21--Revival of Donizetti's L'Elisire d'Amore; at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. Cast: Gigli, Fleischer, De Luca, Pinza, Falco.

March 21-26--National conference of music supervisors; at Chicago.

March 21-26--Brahms Festival at Symphony Hall, Boston. Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky.

March 28--Concert by National High School Chorus; in Chicago. Members: 400 representative U. S. high school children. Conductor: Dr. Hollis Dann of New York University.

April 14--Joint recital by Pianist Ossip Gabrilowitsch and Violinist Mischa Elman; at Carnegie Hall, Manhattan.

Sport

BASEBALL

April 15--Start of major league season.

BOATS

March 25, 26--Miami Beach regatta; at Miami Beach, Fla.

March 29~April 5--Detroit motorboat and sportsman's show; at Detroit, Mich.

April 12--Oxford-Cambridge boat races from Putney to Mortlake, England.

April 19--Navy v. Columbia v. M. I. T.; at Annapolis, Md.

FENCING

March 22--Foils: individual interscholastic competition; at Fencers Club, Manhattan.

March 25--Foils: women's national team championship; at Fencers Club.

GOLF

March 27, 28--North & South Open; at Pinehurst, N. C.

March 31-April 1 -- Southeastern Open; at Augusta, Ga.

April 7-12--North & South Amateur; at Pinehurst, N. C.

HORSES

March 22--Carolina Cup hunt race; at Camden, S. C.

March 28--Grand National Steeplechase; at Aintree, Liverpool, England.

April 5--Middleburg Hunt at Middleburg, Va.

GOING

Best Plays in Manhattan

STREET SCENE--Pulitzer Prizewinning view of the proletariat.

JOURNEY'S END--Best of the war plays.

IT'S A WISE CHILD--Farce in a parlor.

Civic REPERTORY THEATRE--Tchekov and other worthies.

STRICTLY DISHONORABLE -- Speakeasy and bedroom fairytale.

SUBWAY EXPRESS--Strange events underground.

JUNE MOON--Lardner & Kaufman semi-musical spree.

THE FIRST MRS. FRASER--Genteel comedy of divorce and such.

AT THE BOTTOM -- Maxim Gorki's pauper philosophers revived (The Lower Depths).

TOPAZE--Guffaws in the Gallic manner.

THE LAST MILE--Horrible depiction of the death house.

THE APPLE CART--Bernard Shaw v. Democracy.

THE GREEN PASTURES--The Bible according to Sambo.

Musical: EARL CARROLL'S SKETCH BOOK, SWEET ADELINE, HEADS UP!, SONS of GUNS, FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN, WAKE UP AND DREAM, SIMPLE SIMON (Ed Wynn).

Best Pictures

ANNA CHRISTIE--Greta Garbo in Eugene 0'Neil's great Swedish waterwork.

ACROSS THE WORLD WITH MR. AND MRS. MARTIN JOHNSON--Cannibalia and animalia better photographed than usual.

SEVEN DAYS LEAVE--Sir James Barrie whimsical, but not offensive, about the War.

FRAGMENT OF AN EMPIRE--First-rate Russian drama of a soul's regeneration.

MEN WITHOUT WOMEN--Under-sea heroism with the right touch.

*Commemorating William Henry Seward, U. S. Statesman influential in the purchase of Alaska from Russia (1867).

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